104 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 4:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.
58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.
silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-18, snare through bars 19-22, hi-hat through bars 23-24, silence through bars 25-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-38, and 7 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 9 and 11, and 16 more places -- 31.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x---------x-------x-----------x---------x-------|There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.
It cuts the song into 18 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.
96 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.
58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
104 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 7 sittings, about 22 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.